ABSTRACT
A dystopian world has been in the making for decades in the American Science Fiction (SF) cinema, with catastrophic films that uncannily parallel the crises and the troubles of the planet. In this chapter the author calls this world the Empire of Catalandia. The author acknowledges Sci-Fi's drive to interpret contemporary history by stating that American disaster films provide an allegory of the capitalist Anthropocene, in which the idea of the end of the world is projected in dystopian futures. She argues that American Sci-Fi cinema is the best interpreter of the Anthropocene's ecological situation. The author then introduces the films that inspired her considerations of SF and the Anthropocene. In the flamboyant Avatar, the Canadian director James Cameron made viewers love to hate the Imperialist Military-Scientific Apparatus, which in the year 2154 brings destruction to Pandora, a faraway Eden-like planet inhabited by beautiful blue natives, the Na'vi.
